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A HOME IN 
SOUTHERN 
CALIFORNIA 




AN ANTELOPE \' ALLEY RANCH 

FIVE ACRES AND INDEPENDENCE 





CATTLE GKAZL\G IN ALP~ALFA FIELD 

Investments That Pay 25 to 50% Annually 




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EORTY ACRES AND FORTUNE 




\EGLTABLE RANCH IXG IN CALIFORNIA 

OUR l\EW PLAN SECURES A HOME, A LIFE INCOME, 
HEALTH, WEALTH, HAPPINESS AND INDEPENDENCE 



NEW PLAN BOOK 

OF THE 

National Homestead 
Association 

(INCORPORATED) 

CAPITAL STOCK $1,000,000 

OFFICERS 

E. C. REDMAN, Pres. L. M. REDMAN, Treas. 

A. S. GEAR, Secretary 

Depository of Poinds Certificate of Title by 

American National Bank Title Abstract & Trust Co. 

Counsel 
William Chambers 

REFERENCES 

Title Abstract & Trust Company, Los Angeles. 

Bradstreet's Commercial Agency, Los Angeles. 

Hoffman Hardware Co., (Wholesale), 229-231 South Los 
Angeles St,, Los Angeles. 

Cooper, Coates & Casey Dry Goods Co,, (Wholesale), 
528 So. Los Angeles St. Los Angeles 

Axtell & Payne. Attorneys, 301 Douglas Building, Los 
Angeles. 

Kinsey, McAlvay Co., Automobiles, 114 East Ninth St., 
Los Angeles. 

Arnott & Co., 120-122-124 S. Los Angeles St., Los 
Angeles. 

John T. F. Baryerts, H. W, Hellman Bldg. Los Angeles. 

P. H. Jarrett, Postmaster, Redman, Cal. 

Rev. D. B. Finch, Redman, Cal. 

P. D. Finch, Rancher, Redman, Cal. 

G. S. Marygold, Secretary Southern California Music 
Co., 332-34 South Broadway, Los Angeles, 
(land owner in Antelope Valley) 

And many others in Antelope Valley. 

If you have occasion to write to anv of the above, please enclose 
stamped envelope for reply. Write briefly — remember that Los 
Angeles people are busy people. 

MAIN OFFICES 

LOS ANGELEvS, CALIFORNIA 

646 Chamber of Commerce Building 

(Copyriiihted 191)8 b\- National Homesthad Association) 



THE ASSOCIATION PLAN 

Is different from the usual 
mode of Colonizing Lands 

Under its New System of Colonization 6,000 Acres of 

Los Angeles County Choice Fruit and Farm Lands 

Will be Deeded to Members of the Colony 

Without any charge for the Land 

YOU CAN BUY land anywhere, at any time, at any 
price but it will have to be improved or the sur= 
rounding lands must be improved to make your 
land valuable. 

IF YOU secure land under our plan you can have 
it improved at once, The second year you will be 
receivin.a; a revenue of 10 per cent; the third year 
25 per cent and the fourth year one-half the net 
l)rofits (estimated ) 35 per cent on your iiivestment 
without being recjuired to occupy or cultivate it 
yourself. 

IF you take possession, occupy and cultivate it 
\-ourself you should make 50 to 100 per cent or 
$100 to $300 an acre. 

THE cultivation of your land should enhance its 
value two hundred per cent in three years, or $200 
an acre. 

Jf you cannot cultivate it or have us do it for you 
at once, your land is growing more valuable every 
year, because it will be surrounded by improved 
and cultivated Ranches of other members of the 
Association. 

THE OPPORTUNITY foi- investment under our 
Association plan is the most liberal ever offered 
by any land Company, Association or Corporation 
in the history of Real Estate, Investment or Coloni= 
zation. 

YOU can secure land l)y our plan on the most 
liberal terms of installment payments. 

Y^OU may take possession at once or not. Y^ou 
may cultivate and improve or not. You can have 
the Association do it for you NOW, at any FUTURE 
TIME or not at all. 

TH]]RE ARE no hide bound, cast iron rules. 
Our aim is to meet your requirements, conditions 
and wishes, financial and otherwise. We want 
You interested to the amount your means will ad- 
mit and we will start you on the road to independ= 
ence. 

NATIONAL HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION 

644-645-646 Chamber of Commerce Building 
LOS ANGELES, CAL 



THIS BOOKLET TELLS 

How land is deeded Members in Tracts of 

Five to Forty Acres without any 

payment for tlie land 

A Mutual-Cooperative-Profit-Sharins Plan 
Read it; Profit by It— It Is for YOU 



We are assuming that every person who has read our 
announcements in the papers, and all who read these pages, 
are anxious to make money — to better their condition — to 
secure a life of competence — independence in old age and a 
home in Southern California. 

The consummation of such a desire is certainly the wish of 
every well thinking, wise and thrifty person, whether young, 
middle aged, or old, male or female. 

The business man, professional man or woman is never 
independent, never has a competence until able to lay down 
the cares and burdens of sucli a life and live upon an income. 
Even then there are few investments outside of real estate 
that are absolutely safe and these pay. two to five per cent. 

25 PER CENT TO 50 PER CENT ANNUALLY. 

By our new ])lan of nnitual co-oi^eration, of lioncst endeavor, 
of combined capital and well directed effort, you are able to 
make every dollar you invest earn 25 per cent or more annu^ 
ally. We make this statement knowing full well that it will be 
criticised, but we seek only the opportunity to prove the 
statement antl ask only that you read this entire proposition 
and investigate thoroughly. 

OUR PROPOSITION PLAINLY STATED. 

This Association is incorporated with an authorized Capital 
of $1,000,000 for the purpose of buying, subdividing, selling, 
developing and improving lands for its members and to divide 
the profits of same among its shareholders. 

It is colonizing 6,000 acres of fine agricultural 
valley lands in Los Angeles County, within forty-fi\'e miles of 
the city of Los Angeles, including the townsite of Redman. 
where schools, stores and postoffice are now established. 

This Association desires to have you as a shareholder in all 
this land, including the townsite, alfalfa farm.s, fruit farms, etc. 

It purposes further to give you a tract of land of five, ten, 
twenty or forty acres, or a town lot, size 50x150 feet, or both, 
without any charge for the land. It agrees to cultivate, care 
for and market your crop, and pay you 10 per cent on your 
investment the second year and 25 per cent the third year and 
one=half the net profits (estimated 35 per cent) thereafter. 

OTHER PROFITS TO ACCRUE. 

^You must not lose sight of the fact that at all times your 
investment is safe. The safest that can be made because 
it is backed by producing real estate. 

This land is now valued by us at $100 per acre, but in one 
year from now it will probably be $200 and under full cultivation 
should be worth $300 to $500 per acre. It is safe to preiHct 
that in three years tliis land will connnand a jirice of not less 
than $300 an acre because it will pay 20 per cent or more on 
this valuation. Tlierefore, while you are getting 25 j)er cent 
the third year from the Association upon any investment 
made, you are also getting a profit of $200 or more per acre 
on the land you own by reason of increased value. 

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CERTIFICATE OF TITLE. 

In addition to tlie Company's deetl to these lands, the Title 
Abstract & Trust Company of Los Angeles will issue a cer- 
tificate of Title. 

Tiiis institution is one of the strongest in the state of Cali- 
fornia, thus making your title absolute perfect to you, as any 
lawyer will inform you. When we send you deed, we for- 
ward you at the same time your Certificate of Title together 
with tlie shares purchased in the Association. 

HOW WE PAY 25% OR MORE ANNUALLY. 

Soon after we receive your order and first payment, and 
order to cultivate your land, we begin planting it to alfalfa, 
which is the best paying crop raised in California for the 
money investe^l. The first and second years' croj) will pay 
for seeding, supplying water and other exijenses; and pay you 
a profit of $10 per acre; it being remembered that the Assf)- 
ciation pays for all liclp, including its superintendent. The 
third year, we figure the profits at least $50 per acre, $25 of 
which goes to you and the balance into the treasury of the 
Association for the purpose of development and improvement 
of the Association's reserved lands, the purchase of other 
lands, and to pay dividends on the shares you hold and ex= 
penses. After the third year we figure the profits at $70 to 
$100 yearly, one=half of which goes to you and one=half to 
the Association IF you tlesire us to continue the liarvesting 
and marketing of yoiu" crofi. 




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Traction Plow Plowing 20 Furrows 

TO CULTIVATE 1,000 ACRES 

It will be the policy of the Association to reserve every 
sixth 40 acre tract and place the same under cultivation. 
By this plan each adjoining rlO acres held by investors should 
more than double in value, whether placed under cultivation 
or not. About 900 acres of this reserved land will be planted 
to alfalfa and 100 acres to fruit, grapes, etc. 

This land, when under cultivation should pay six per cent 
on the entire capital stock, and it is believed this dividend 
can be increased from the sale of other reserved lands and 
side crops while the fruit ranch is coming into bearing. 

It is the aim of the Association to make every share of its 
stock a perpetual dividend payer. 

LAND WORTH $300 AN ACRE. 

Southern California land under intense cultivation is worth 
$300 to $1,000 an acre. It is worth this because it will pay 
from 20 to 50 per cent on this valuation. 

Five acres, well cultivated, will earn you all the necessities 
of life and more, 10 to 40 acres will produce competence and 
wealth. Ten acres of good California soil will produce, with 
one=third the labor, more than most I00=acre farms in the 
East or Middle West. 

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CALIFORNIA. 

The history of California is too well known to need ex- 
tensive comment here. In 1849 thousands of Eastern people 
found fortunes in California gold mines; today tens of thous- 
ands are making fortunes from its wontlerfully fertile soil, 
from gold mines on the face of the earth, not under it. 

California is unlike any other land imder the sun. Its 
size is unusual. It is equal in size to all New England, with 
New York and Ohio added. 

Its scenery is unequaled anywhere; its climate the softest 
known to the temperate zone, and its range of productions 
is unparalleled in any single country in the world. It com- 
mands the orient with its six huntlred millions of consiuners, 
a greater trade than Europe and America combined. It 
controls tlie trade of Australia and New Zealand, Hawaiian 
Islands antl the Philippines. 

California already excels thirty-nine other states in value 
of manufactures, $367, OOU, 1)00 being its yearly output. 

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 

The citrus fruit crop of Southern California alone is worth 
$35,000,000, besides about $30,000,000 was received last year 
from other fruits, alfalfa, walnuts, almonds, olives, dried 
fruits, canned goods, wines, etc. California belongs to you — a 
part of your own country — a region where you will be welcome. 

From every State in the Union people are coming to 
California. If once you see the State, if you could taste the 
Southern California life, and compare it with the cold East 
and Middle West, it would be Southern California for you. 




Antelope Valley Ranch House — Built by Percy Neeley 
LOS ANGELES COUNTY. 

Embraces within its limits a great variety of scenery and 
climate. Within its 4,000 square miles of territory — an 
area almost as large as Connecticut — may be found the 
climate and scenery of almost every part of the State. 

From its warm and fertile valleys and fruit laden foothills 
one may view the snow capped peaks of a Switzerland; 
from its hills the great Pacific ocean with its scores of beaches, 
beautiful bays and delightful resorts. In 1900 the countv's 
population was 170,290; today it is over 500,000. The 
city of Los Angeles in 1900 contained 102,000; now over 
300,000 wide-awake, thrifty people. 

The county is about four-fifths tillable soil, the balance 
being mountainous. It produces nearly everything grown 
in the temperate zone and many things grown in the tropics; 
even pineapples and bananas, though not in commercial 
quantities. 



ASSOCIATION'S COLONY LANDS. 

All of this land is located within the Artesian water 
belt of the comity between two trunk lines, the 
Southern Pacific -Ami Atchison. Topeka it Santa Fe 
Railroads, with wnter in al)Uiidaiice from flowing 
ai'tesian wells foi- irrigntion. domestic and city purposes. 
Every acre of this (iiie \:illev land is tillable. Soil guaranteed 
equal to any land.s of the State for the purpo.ses for which 
they are recommended. It produces as fine alfalfa, fruits 
and grape.s as are grown in the State. The land owns the 
water, and you have no water rights to pay for. 




Harvesting Alfalfa — G. S. Alarv^old's Ranch, Antelope 
Valley 

ALFALFA IS KING. 

No crop in California produces so large an income for the 
money invested as alfalfa. In Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and 
Kansas it is corn, in the South it is cotton, but in California. 
Alfalfa is King. Fifty to one hundred dollars per acre can 
be made from our lands in alfalfa after the second year. The 
first and second years will pay for seeding and developing 
water and allow you a good profit; after that it will pro- 
duce for more than twenty years. By raising alfalfa and 
vegetables the settler can make money while other acres 
are being grown to fruit. Every acre is valley land, level, 
slightly sloping, and ready for the plow. 

If Alfalfa is King, Water is Queen, and it must be had in 
California for successful crop raising. Nowhere in California 
can it be had more cheaply or in such abundance than on the 
lands this Association is colonizing. Water spouts several 
feet high from artesian wells here, and in such (lu-antities that 
you can make a good sized lake in a few hoiu's. No water 
in the world is softer or purer than ours. 

Baled Alfalfa is worth $10 to $16 a ton, and loose $8 to 
$14. Counting ten tons to the acre (six cuttings), the pro= 
duction would be 100 tons from ten acres, which at $12.50 
per ton would amount to $125 per acre, or enough to pay 
100 per cent on your investment, figuring your land on the 
basis of $100 per acre. 

Alfalfa fieltls affoi-d s])lendid grazing for cattle, hogs, sheep 
and poultry. 

TURKEYS AND CHICKENS. 

Raising of turkeys, chickens, and ducks is one of the 
most profitable of California industries. One rancher in 
our vicinity raised 10,000 tiu'keys last year at a profit of 
$20,000, besides cattle, hogs and other products from his 
ranch. 

Turkeys thrive on alfalfa and are only fed about fom- weeks 
before marketing. Ducks are extremely profitable; they 

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are great egg producers, and every twelve-week-old-diick 
grown, is worth $1.00. Twenty Indian Runner Ducks raised 
by President Redman on his ranch produced over 6,600 eggs, 
in one year, an average of over 330 eggs to the duck per 
vear. 



DECIDUOUS FRUITS. 

The lands the Association are Colonizing are especially 
adapted to deciduous fruits. Apples grow to perfection. Bart- 
lett pears from this valley took the first prize at the Jamestown 
Exposition last year. One acre of Bartlett pears in this 
Valley produced a crop in 1907 that sold for $750 on the trees 
])urchaser paying picking and shipping charges. 

Peaches, nectarines, prunes, plums, sugar beets, melons, 
almonds, and walnuts, grow to perfection. 

Grapes of the finest quality grow upon these lands, there 
being no fogs to discolor them. All varieties bear profusely, 
including Tokays, Muscat, Cornechon, Red Emperor, Malagas, 
Black Morrocco and all table and wine grapes. Every crop 
is a money crop in this valley. 




Apple Orchard in Antelope Valley 



TRUCK FARMING. 

Truck farming here is profitable. Any kind of garden 
truck grows, and you may have vegetables fresh from your 
garden the year round. 

Melons strawberries, tomatoes, onions, turnips, beets, 
lettuce, squash, asparagus, celery, potatoes (sweet and Irish ), 
peanuts, etc., one to three crops annually. 

Nearly everytliing needed is rai.sed here, including cattle, 
poultry, and hogs, so that the cost of living is reduced to a 
minimum. Alfalfa and vegetables will make you money 
while your fruit trees are coming into full bearing. 

Five, ten, twenty, or forty=acre tracts and town lots will 
be deeded, free of any charge for the land, to any person 
purchasing shares of this Association. 

Each member being a stockholder becomes a part owner in 
all property of the Association, both real and personal, now 
or hereafter acquired. 



OUR PROPOSITION. 

The National Homestead Association hereby agrees to 
issue shares in any or all of the following classes without any 
charge for the land, for executing deed, notary fees, taxes or 
other expense and furnisli certificate of title to said Uunl by 
the Title Abstract and Trust Company of Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia. 

The only conchtion being that the investor shall take the 
amount of shares specified in whatever class he or she may 
choose to select, paying therefor the par value of One Dollar 
($1.00) per share and receiving therefor certificate of shares 
anil Deed for lot or lots or tract valued to the amount of 
shares purchased. 

Money invested in the shares of this Association goes into 
the treasury of the Association for the purpose of buying, suh- 
(liriding, cultivating and improving land, building houses, 
improving streets, or any other purpose granted by our charter 
under the direction of the Board of Trustees. Not a dollar 
can be used for any other purpose except the legitimate expenses 
of the company. 



CLASSES OF INVESTMENT. 

CLASS A Llpon payment of $500 the National Home= 
stead Association will issue and deliver 500 
shares of its capital stock, deed for five acres 
of land, and furnish certificate of title to same. 
If on the installment plan, $50 cash and $10 
monthly. 

CLASS B ^P^" payment of $1000 the National Home= 
stead Association will issue and deliver 1000 
shares of its capital stock, deed for ten acres 
of land, and furnish certificate of title to same. 
If on the installment plan, $100 cash and $20 
monthly. 

CLASS C '^P^" Paynient of $1500 the National Home= 
stead Association will issue and deliver 1500 
shares of its capital stock, deed for fifteen acres 
of land and furnish certificate of title to same. 
If on the installment plan, $150 cash and $30 
monthly. 

CLASS D '-'P'^" payment of $2000 the National Home= 
stead Association will issue and deliver 2000 
shares of its capital stock, deed for twenty acres 
of land, and furnish certificate of title to same 
If on the installment plan, $200 cash and $40 
monthly. 

CLASS E '^P'^" payment of $3000 the National Home= 
stead Association will issue and deliver 3000 
shares of its capital stock, deed for thirty acres 
of land, and furnish certificate of title to same. 
If on the installment plan, $300 cash and $60 
monthly. 

CLASS F '-'P^" payment of $4000 the National Home= 
stead Association will issue and deliver 4000 
shares of its capital stock, deed for forty acres 
of land, and furnish certificate of title to same. 
If on the installment plan, $400 cash and $80 
monthly. 

CLASS G '^'P*'" payment of $100 the National Home= 
stead Association will issue and deliver 100 
shares of its capital stock and issue deed to a 
lot 50x150 feet in townsite of Redman. If on 
the installment plan, $10 cash and $5 monthly. 
Corner lots, $125 

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EASY PAYMENT, INSTALLMENT PLAN. 

We realize that there is an army of worthy men and women 
throughout the United Sates that are anxious to secure land 
in Southern California, to some time make it their home, 
where they can enjoy its glorious climate and reap the great 
profits which its wonderful soil produces. 

We want this class, as well as the cash investor. 




:>oiiie of the Association's Land 

The Association will sell on easy monthly payments and 
long time. Installment investoi's receive from us on first 
payment a contract signed in duplicate, one of which they 
sign and return to us. As low as $10 monthly will be ac- 
cepted, and the installment purchaser can take possession of 
the land, cultivate, improve, transfer and sell his rights at any 
time. 




Colonists Inspecting Association Lauds 

Installment purciiasers can have their tracts put under 
cultivation at once by paying $25 per acre in cash or on the 
installment plan to cover cost of ])l()wiiig, seeding, and irriga- 
ting. By adopting the following plan the income from your 
property will more than take care of your monthly payments 
after the second year, as shown by the following: 

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Cr. Or 

$500.00 



FIVE ACRE ILLUSTRATION 

ON THE INSTALLMENT AND CULTIVAT ON PLAN 
FIRST YEAR— 

Cost to you for 500 Shares 1 5 acres ) -^^^ *'J"" "" 

Cost to you for cultivating 5 acres at $25 izi.w 

625 00 
First payment on shares $50 cash, cultivat= 

ing $12.50 ^-^" 

Balance due after first payment ... 562. 50 

Less 9 monthly payments (for cultivatmg) 

at $12.50 $112.50 

Less 11 monthly payments (for shares) 

$10 monthly "0^*^ 

222.50 
Balance due Association end of first year 340. 00 

SECOND YEAR— 

Less 12 monthly payments of $10 120.00 

Less profit on alfalfa ^^^^ 1^^ ^^ 

Balance due Association end of second 

year '^0 0^ 

THIRD YEAR— 

Less 12 monthly payments of $10 'o2 ^n 

Less profit on alfalfa third year '^^^^ 

245 00 
Less amount due Association end second 

year '70.00 

Money due vou at end of third year for 

which draft will be sent 75. 00 

The above shows that at the end of second year, you haA-e 
paid in !i;40r).00, Init you receive a credit of $50 from altalta 
crop equal to twelve per cent on your investment. 

It shows an investment at the end ot the third year ot 
§.525 but you receive a credit of $125 from alfalfa crop or 
twenty=four per cent on vour investment. 

It also shows that vour shares and cultivation are paid m 
full at the end of the third year and you receive from us 
$75.00. , , . ^• 

The fourth year if vou have us contmue the cultivation, 
you will receive one=half the profits (estimated at $35 per 
acre) or thirty=three per cent on your investment. 

PROPERTY NOW WORTH $1,500. 

An acre of land that will produce $70 per acre is certainly 
worth S300 and you can count your five acres worth $1500 at 
the end of the third year. 

This being so, vou have made $1000 or two hundred per 
cent on your land in addition to th(> i^rofit from your crops. 

SUMMARY OF PROFITS. 

First year $000.00 

Second year 50 00 equal 12% 

Third year 125. 00 equal 24% 

Fourth year (Estimated) 175. 00 equal 33% 

Increased value of land 1000.00 equal 200% 

Total profit from investment, four years 1350.00 equal 270% 
or an average yearly profit of $337 50. 

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FIVE ACRE CASH ILLUSTRATION 

Cost to you for 500 Association shares (5 
acres ) which includes water, cultiva= 
tion, irrigation, seeding to alfalfa, har= 
vesting and marl\eting crop $500. 00 

First year, profit $000.00 

Second year, profit 50. 00 equal 10% 

Third year, profit 125. 00 equal 25% 

Fourth year, profit (estimated ) 175. 00 equal 35% 

Total profit from crops four years 350. 00 equal 70% 

Increased value of land 1000. 00 equal 200% 

Total profit four years 1350. 00 equal 270% 

Average yearly profit 337. 50 equal 672''(, 

This statement is not overdrawn. We figure a profit from 
alfalfa $70 per acre after the third year. If you take posses- 
sion of it at that time, you should make it pay you $500 
yearly on five acres or 100 per cent on your original invest- 
ment. Can you make a better investment anywhere ? We 
have not figured anything from your investment in shares, 
but after the Association ranch is under full cultivation, you 
can safely figure on getting at least, 6 per cent on your origi- 
nal investment of $500. 

The advantage of the cash buyer over the installment is 
that he has nothing to pay for cultivation. 




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IMPROVEMENTS BEGIN AT ONCE. 

We will begin the improvement and cultivation of tracts 
for Cash investors or those who pay for cultivation at once, 
paying all costs of water, seed, planting, cultivation and care, 
and pay 10 per cent on your investment the second year and 
25 per cent the third year and one=half the net proceeds yearly 
thereafter. Estimated at not less than $35 an acre for your 
half during contract years, or until you are ready to take 
possession of your property, which should be worth $300 per 
acre after the third year. 

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COMPETENT, PRACTICAL SUPERVISION. 

The care of your California ranch, ami we trust future 
liome will be luicler tlu> sup('r\ision of our President, K. V. 
Redman, a i)raetieal and experienced rancher of years' ex- 
})erience, living at Redman, in tlie \'alley, who will he ably 
assisted by a corps of the l)est alfalfa growers and fruit horti- 
culturists to be found within the state. 




Ranch of G. S. Marygold, Antelope Valley 

ASSOCIATION SHARES PAY DIVIDENDS. 

Entirely apart and in addition to tlie profits made from 
your land, each shareholder in the Association should receive 
dividends from the shares he holds. After two years it is 
believed the Association will be able to pay an annual dividend 
of 6 per cent or more on its shares from its alfalfa ranch 
and from the sale of its reserved lands. After one year 
every unsold acre of land belonging to the Association should 
be v/orth $200 by reason of improvements made, diversified 
interests and rapid settlement. 

SHARES EXCHANGEABLE FOR LAND. 

Shares of this Association may l)e exchanged for more land 

in the class in which it is issued at any time after one year 
from date of share certificate at the then listed price of the 
land, and shares so exchanged will be received at their full 
face value of $1.00 each. 




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INSURANCE. 

Deed for lainl will be given to the heirs of any purchaser 
on the installment plan in any class, who may die at any time 
during the life of the contract after one year after date of 
contract, provided such person is in good health at time 
contract is made. 

THE CITY OF REDMAN. 

Not yet a city, but located only two hours and fifty 
minutes from the metropolis of Los Angeles, between two 
railroads, with three more, one an electric line surveyed 
through this ijroperty, and the Santa Fe surveyed and right 
of way granted through Redman, surrounded by 100,000 
acres of splentlidly watered farming and fruit lands, 
it must soon become tiic commercial center of the valley. 

A school, store and post office are already established. It 
is but the liegiiuiiiig of wliat will be a bustling, thriving town 
of hundreds of people, surrounded by sma 1 farms and fruit 
orchards cultivated l)y hundreds of pros^jerous ranchers and 
fruit growers. 




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Lake made from Artesian Well --Antelope Valley 

Water as pure as crystal can be had from wells at a depth 
of hnuteen feet, or developed from artesian wells at small cost 
to supply a city of 25,000 people. 

I'rom any jjortion of tiiis s[)lendidly located town one 
views magnificent chains of mountains, including tlie snow- 
capped peaks of Mount Whitnev and "Old Haldy." An 
investment in lots here should prove immensely profitable if 
secured now at the low price of $100 each, and should double 
and quadruple in value in a short time. 

In sliort, Redman is ix'culiarly located in a fertile valley 
l)etween mountain I'anges. that temjiers the atmosphere to 
a delectable degree, that is neither too cold or hot; and the 
refreshing breezes from the ocean, daily experienced, makes 
tliis exceptionally favored section one of the most delightful 
places to live n to be found in California. 

Business enterprises, sucli as j)acking houses, canning 
an 1 preserving factories, mills, lumber yards, stores of all 
kinds, will soon be needed. Merchants, professional men, 
<-nrpenters and mechanics will find profitable openings. 

OFFER LIMITED PRICES TO BE ADVANCED. 

Ne\'er in tlie history of colonization have you had such 
an opportunity to make yourself independent for life by a 
small investment. There is only a limited amount of good 
land to be had. Land cannot be made, and 't is growing 

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more valuable every year. A generation ago the farmer was 
not looked up to as tlie most pros|)erous antl most independent 
man on earth tliat he is today. 

The Association's offer of shares at par and five to forty 
acresfree with the shares, later on will be discontinued. A year 
henee all of tlie Associations reserxed oi' unsold land will 
be a(haiiced to $'200 an acre, and will bring it, and your 
individual land will be worth the same — more if cultivated. 

NOW, today, is the time to take advantage of this ofTer. 
Delay onl>' means delayetl income and higlier prices. 

NO LIABILITY; LOSS IMPOSSIBLE. 
The shares of this corporation arc issued to you full paid 
and non=assessable. They can never be a.ssessed under any 
circumstances, and no liability is attached under any conditions. 

THIS IS FOR YOU. 

Thi.s is a personal offer to You, to all who receive this, to 
all who desire to better their contlition, who have some money 
and a lot of ambition to succeed. Even though you cannot 
visit California now, even though you never occupy your 
ranch, your income will come to you just the same from 
both land holdings and shares. If you can occupy your 
land, your profits will be much greater and yovir life lived 
in the glorious climate of Southern California, free from 
blizzards and the cares of strenuous business, or,wliat is worse, 
alway.s' working for someone else. 

IN CONCLUSION. 

Let us urge you to think of tliis matti'r seriously. Let this 
A.ssociation help you to independence and competence. The 
day comes when we must gi\'e up tlie cai'es of business, lay 
down the burdens of labor, and we should be prepared for it. 

What is more distressing than witnessing the poverty, 
helplessness antl dependence of a man or woman in cleclining 
years. It is the duty of everyone to prepare for old age, 
for independence, for home and its comforts, even though 
it necessitates the ciu'tailing of some of the luxuries in earlier 
life. 

Small investments from little savings accom])lish this under 
our liberal plan of mutual co-operation. 

Make all remittances by Bank Draft, Check, Postoffice 
Order, Express Money Order or Registered Letter to the 

National Homestead Association 

Suite 644-646 Chamber of Comircrce Building 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 




Small Artesian Well and Reservoir — A}itelopc Valley 



OWN A HOME IN THIS 
BEAUTIFUL VALLEY 




A FEW ACRES HERE WILL MAKE YOU 
INDEPENDENT FOR LIFE 



The Following Pages Tell All About 
These Colony Lands. 

What They Will Produce; the Water, Climate, 
Soil, etc. 



Lands in Antelope Valley, like lands in all sections of 
California, vary in quality, but where water can be obtained 
for irrigation, there is no (luestion al)()ut crops. 

These Colony lands are selected, every acre is good soil 
with water in abuntiance. 

Antelope Valley has an elevation of 2350 feet above sea 
level and begins thirty-four miles on air line, due North 
from Los Angeles, and about sixty miles by rail. 

The Valley is not adapted to the raising of citrus fruits, 
l)ut it is especially adapted to the raising of most all deciduous 
fruits, being out of the excessive heat of the San Joaquin 
Valley and the intense frost of the high Sierra. There 
is no more healthy place on the globe and the climate is 
especially beneficial for all throat and lung troubles and 
even now, is recognized as one of the great Health Resorts 
of the Pacific Coast. There are now several sanitariums for 
invalids in the Valley. 

Antelope ^^alley lands have aroused the interest of the 
keen sighted business men of California, who are now making 
heavy investments therein. Antelope Valley is today the hope 
of the man of moderate means, who comes to California 
to establish his home, as it offers homes for the industrious 
and a profitable investment to the keen sighted, wisely dis- 
criminating investor. 

CLIMATE 

The Eastern section of Antelope Valley, in which the 
Colony lands are located, has a delightful climate! no 
malaria, fogs, blizzards, or cyclones; the thermometer sel- 
<lom going below 30 degrees or above 100 degrees in the 
hottest days. All nights are delightfully cool — one needs a 
blanket every night in the year to sleep imder. It has good 
svirface water over many square miles from wells at from 
ten to twenty feet, and also has gooil strong flowing artesian 
wells at moderate depth, flowing from twenty=five to seventy= 
five miners' inches of water. If these wells are pumped, they 
will produce from 100 to 250 miners' inches. 

APPEARANCE OF THE COUNTRY. 

The land is level or gently sloping,, is ready for the plow 
and is all irrigable. Prospective buyers can drive for miles 
in a wagon off from the main roads. The illustrations 
herewith presented show the general character of the 
country better than any description we might give. 

SOIL. 

In our section where tlie surface water is found within 
from eight to fifteen feet of the surface, the soil is always 
moist within a few inclies of the surface, and varies from a 
sandy loam to a heavy loam, with a top rich soil of two to 
three feet, all of which is stratified with alluviam. No 
better or richer soil for the jnn-pose for which it is recom- 
mended, is to be found in California. 

DRAINAGE. 

Although the surface of the East side of the Valley looks 
level, it all has a grade of about seven feet to the mile, so 
that water will not stand. It is easy to irrigate, having just 
slope enough for this purpose and as the deep clay under- 
lying the surface soil, is likewise graded, this land has both 
a surface and sub-soil drainage. 

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TOWNS. 

There are several railroad towns in the Valley on the 
present line of the Southern Pacific Railroad: viz., Rosamond 
on the north, Lancaster in the center, and Palmdale upon 
tlie South Side. 

RAILROAD FACILITIES. 

At the present time, Lancaster is our nearest shipping 
point, on the Southern Pacific Trunk line, to Los Angeles, 
San Francisco, and other points in California. The Santa 
Fe is nine miles North, giving communication to the East, 
Middle West, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tlie Santa 
Fe's new system is also surveyed and right of way secured 
directly through the new townsite of Redman, and 3 new lines, 
one a trolly line will run through a iiortion of this property. 
Tliey have been surveyetl and it is believed will soon be built. 

This location gives the advantages of railroad competition 
in exporting our products to all markets of the world. And 
Redman being at the junction of these proposed new Rail= 
roads — will then become the shipping point for that section. 




Oivl Express from Los Angeles to San Francisco 
Passing Through Valley 

MARKET FACILITIES. 

Tlie city of Los Angeles affords a ready market for all 
products of the .\ntelope as well as other contiguous Valleys, 
Antelope Valley has the advantage of most valleys as many 
mines are operated in tlie surrounding moiuitains which take 
most of our supplies, thus making for us a home market, at 
prices equal or better than Los Angeles. 

There is ah'eady a market at all times for all that can be 
produced. 

ABOUT WATER— 320 ARTESIAN WELLS 

Too much cannot be said about it, it being King. There 
never has l)een a recorded failure to ol)tain water. Over 
320 wells have been opened in this Valley, which flow, with- 
out jHimping, from twenty=five to seventy=five miners' inches. 

A miner's inch approximately stated, is about 13,000 
gallons per day, so tliat it can be imderstood that these wells 
will actually produce from 325,000 to 975,000 gallons per 
day without ])umping. 

The farmer and fruit grower on the Association's land, is 
independent. He is his own master, owns his own water 
supply, and is t'^peiulent upon no man, or season for water, 
and lias no water tax collector calling at his door. He has 

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Simpson s Artesian Well near Redman, flowing over 
60 miners inches 

absolute control of Nature's gifts and the seasons. He has 
control of the rain gua^o, that brings life to his vegetation 
and fortune and prosperity to his door. 

The Association's ]ilan is to drill one Artesian well on each 
40=acre tract, that is abundantly sufficient to irrigate the 
several subdivisions of the same, and tiie several owners will 
obtain the water for irrigation from tliis well. 

A FRUIT COUNTRY. 

Antelope Valley can well be called a fruit country. It 
lias been recognized by the horticulturists at the St. Louis 
World's Fair, Lewis and Clark's Exposition at Portland and 
the Jamestown Exposition, Jamestown, Virginia, with the 
result that the Valley today holds nine premiums for the 
best fruit display at said exhibitions. Hartlett pears from 
here took first prize at the recent Jamestown Exposition. 
No other portion of the State can make a stronger claim for 
recognition. 1 9 



The following fruits are successfully raised in the Valley 
being the most profitable of our deciduous fruits in California. 

APPLES. 

The finest apples in California are grown here. The cele- 
l)rated Spitzenbergs. Baldwins, Newtown Pippins, Arkansas 
Blacks, Mammoth Blacks, Maiden Blush, Ben Davis, Red 
Astrachans, R. I. Greenings, Winter Banana, Red Bell 
Flower, and Jonathans, all do well and the valley has taken 
many prizes at various expositions. 




Antelope Valley Pear Tree. Three Years Old 

PEARS. 

The finest Bartlett pears in the world are grown in Ante- 
lope Valley. This is proved by the fact that they took the 
first prize at St. Louis and at the recent Jamestown Exposi- 
tion. Winter Bartletts and Winter Nellis have taken first 
l)rizes at St. Louis, and Lewis Clark Exposition. Seckel 
j)ears also do well, but the first two varieties are our leaders, 
and money makers. Old orchards of Bartlett pears have 
paid as high as $1000, an acre per year. We have no pear 
blight that is so destructive to pears in other localities. The 
Bartlett Pear and Apple that are raised in this Valley sell for 
more money in the open market than oranges, and we make 
this statement unqualifiedly, which can be verified by the 
markets in the City of Los Angeles. 

PEACHES. 

Any late blooming peach protluces finely in our Valley. 
Early bloomers do well, but are liable to be caught by the 
late frosts. 

PRUNES. 

Prunes of all varieties grow in profusion and pay well 
They are not, however, as profital^le as pears and apples 
No fruit in California pays better tlian apples and Bartlett 
pears. 

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APRICOTS. 

Many apricots are raised in the ^'a^ey, but are liable to 
be eauijht by late frosts, yet no part of tlie state grows better 
or finer apricots than Anteloi)e Valley. 

PLUMS. 

Satsunias and Burbanks are our best ))ayin,ii- l>hiins. They 
are very large, growing well, and i>ay well in in.niy sections 
of our valley. 

QUINCE. 

The largest and best (juince grown anywhere are produced 
in this Valley. Some weighing as high as three pounds have 
been grown on adjacent lantl and no portion of California 
grows a finer frin't, which bring top prices and pay well. 

CHERRIES. 

Cherries are not grown to any extent with us as yet, I:)ut 
what we have are doing well and with proper cultivation 
and cai'e, should be grown with large profit. 

FIGS. 

There are but few fig orchards in our Valley, but what have 
been grown are of fine quality and it is believed that they 
can be raised extensively and with profit. 

OLIVES. 

Splendid olives of large ami fine quality are grown here. 
Prof. Holland of our Valley has the finest olives grown within 
the state. We expect later to see large and profitable olive 
groves in various parts of the Valley. 

GRAPES. 

Table raisin and wine grapes of almost any variety can 
be grown upon our lands. There being no fogs, consequently 
our grapes never mold. Having almost continuous sunshine, 
the color given to our grapes is finer than in most sections 
of California. Grapes grown here are sweeter and contain 
more sugar than in the lower altitudes or in the fog belt. 
Raisin grapes are grown to perfection in this dry climate of 
almost continuous sunshine. Flaming Tokays of beautiful 
color are grown here to perfection. We believe grapes will 
be one of our principal and most profitable industries in the 
near future; especially should this be true of the raisin grape. 

BERRIES. 

Berries have not as yet been grown much in this Valley. 
It must be remembered that many portions of the Valley 
are comparatively new and berries have not yet been raised 
to any extent. What have been grown are of fine quality. 

They include the strawberry, blackberry, dewberry, Logan- 
berry and raspberry. 

MELONS. 

Watermelons and Cantaloupes do exceedingly well. Melons 
weighing forty pounds have been grown on adjacent land 
and cantaloupes of the finest quality have been grown by 
our President on his ranch, adjoining the town of Redman. 

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ALFALFA. 

Alfalfa, belonging to the family of clovers, is the richest 
and most profitable of all and deserves the title given it h\ 
the State of California — "King of Forage Grasses." That it 
deserves such a name can be shown by comparison. 

Clovers will produce from one to three crops annually, 
under most favorable conditions, while alfalfa, when placed 
upon irrigated land and not pastured, affords as many as 
.-even and eight cuttings per year. It is the most profitable 
crop grown in California for the money invested and gives 
the quickest returns. 

It is estimated that alfalfa will stall feed from two to 
three cows per acre and that a dairy cow fed on alfalfa will 
yield a net return of $4.75 to $7.00 per month. From six 
to twelve hogs can be raised on a by-product from the skim 
milk which would otherwise be a waste product. 

From these figures, it will be seen that forty acres of alfalfa 
will support a family and give a net return of $2,500 per 
annum figuring on a conservtive basis. 




.4;; Alj'alfa Field in Full Bloom 

HONEY BEES. 

We believe we have one of the greatest and best sections 
for the honey bee in California today. At present they are 
mostly in the foot hills surrounding our Valley. They will, 
liowever, do well in our section as the bloom on the alfalfa 
is ideal for making good honey. One rancher in our locality 
shipped sixty-four tons of honey last year. 

DAIRY COWS AND HOGS. 

The dairy business of the Valley is very profitable and is 
carried on extensively, by many ranchers. All small ranches 
siiould keep a few cows, which can graze upon the alfalfa, 
after cutting is completed, without detriment. The skimmed 
milk from the cows can be fed to the hogs, which also feed 
u]>on alfalfa and do well. 

POULTRY. 

We have one of the finest poultry sections in California. 
Our altitude of 2350 feet being dry, with no fogs, poultry 
is not afflicted with roup, swelled head, mites or other dis- 
eases common in a damp climate. W^e have several very 
extensive raisers of poultry in our valley. One party raised 
10,000 turkeys, that averaged .$3.25 each, raised at a cost 
of about $5,500. Not a bad investment. The price of hen 
eggs is governed by the Los Angeles market and averages 
about 30 cents the year round. 

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Indian Runner clucks are very profitable. Ducks ten 
weeks old bring an average price of $1.00 each, and there is 
a market for all that can be raised. Ducks average to lay 
300 eggs to the duck the year round, the eggs sell on the mar- 
ket for 5 cents more per dozen than hen eggs. 

VEGETABLES. 

It is enough to say that almost any vegetable grown in 
California will thrive in Antelope Valley. Tomatoes, onions, 
potatoes, (sweet and Irish ), beets (red and sugar ), turnips, 
cabbages, asparagus, celery, etc.. all grow and produce splen- 
did and profitable crops. Many ranches protluce largely 
for the market and grow vegetables for their own use the 
year around. 

Write us for any further information you may desire. We 
shall be pleased to hear from you. 

National Homestead Association 

Suite 644-646 Chamber of Commerce Building 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 




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